One the Major Enhancements in SharePoint 2013 Workflows is availability of "Loop"s is in SharePoint Actions. now loop are fully integrated in workflow actions. there is two type of loops. "Loop n Times" and Loop with conditions. this new feature is available with SharePoint 2013 Workflows You can create directly loop based workflow by using SharePoint designer 2013 preview with different actions. here i am showing one basic example how you can create loop in workflows by using SharePoint 2013.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

I was Deep Diving in SharePoint 2013 Workflow. Find So many new things in SP2013 like new architect. this time workflow is not running in side the SharePoint. its working with azure workflow. new important Enhancements which area really great.

finally Loop is fully integrated actions.

new Feature called "Workflow Stages" for SPD Preview 2013 no need to create state Machine workflow .

new Actions like "Start a Task Process","Assign a task" .

"Call Web Service" Action use data from web-service in workflow.

new Variables types like "Dictionary Type Variables" for an array.

absence of Design View in SharePoint 2013.

Visual Studio 2012 workflow project type support;

Support for creating custom actions.

Based On Windows Workflow 4.0.

New Actions in SP2013 Workflow

Action

Description

Assign a Task

Assigns
a single workflow task to a user or group.

Start a Task Process

Initiates
execution of a task process.

Go to This Stage

Specifies
the next stage in a workflow to which flow control should be handed.

Call HTTP Web Service

Functions
as a method call to a Representational State Transfer (REST) endpoint.

Start a List Workflow

Starts
a list-scoped workflow.

Start a Site Workflow

Starts
a site-scoped workflow.

Build DynamicValue

Creates
a new variable of type DynamicValue.

Get Property from DynamicValue

Retrieves
a property value from a specified variable of type DynamicValue.

Count Items in DynamicValue

Returns
the number of rows in a variable of type DynamicValue.

Trim String

Removes
all leading and trailing white-space characters from the current string.

Find Substring in String

Returns
1-based index of the first occurrence of one or more characters, or the first
occurrence of a string, within a string.

Replace Substring in String

Returns
a new string in which all occurrences of a specified character or string are
replaced with another specified character or string.

Translate Document

Functions
as a wrapper around the HTTP activity that calls the synchronous translation
API. You must configure a Machine Translation Service Application for the
SharePoint site on which you run the workflow.

Set Workflow Status

Updates
workflow status as specified in message string.

Create a Project from Current Item [Microsoft Project]

Creates
a Project Server project based on the current item.

Set the current project stage status to this value [Microsoft
Project]

Sets
the two status fields within the current stage of the project.

Set the status field in the idea list item to this value
[Microsoft Project]

Updates
the status field of the original SharePoint list item.

Wait for Project Event [Microsoft Project]

Pauses
the current instance of the workflow to await a specified Project event:
Project checked in, Project committed, Project submitted.

Set this field in the project to this value [Microsoft Project]

Sets
the value for th

but i am really enjoy allot. with these new tools. on every step its feel like when you get new toy in my childhood.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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